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Rosenzweig, David

Rosenzweig, David


Son of Chaya and Abraham-Isaac. He was born on the 20th of Tishrei 1916 in Poland and immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1933. He served in the British army in Egypt and Beirut and in late April 1943, on the deck of the ship “Arinapura” from Egypt in the direction of Malta, in order to participate in the Allied invasion of Europe on 27 Nisan, May 1, 1943. David’s ship was directly hit and immediately drowned, and a hundred and forty members of Company 462 were killed in the disaster, including David. David was immortalized in The Book of Volunteerism, “he Book of Journalists of the Year 5706, in “Remembrance” of the Jabotinsky Institute and the booklet “Soldier”. In the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, a monument was erected in the shape of a ship and next to it is a small water pool, at the bottom of which are engraved the names of all the company’s missing.

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